Urban desolation on 61st Street near Kimbark Avenue, South Side of Chicago, Foto: Loïc Wacquant
Urban desolation and symbolic denigration in the hypergetto
Curtis insists on taking me to his neighborhood church for a visit with his pastor. As we hunker down inside his four-wheeler, he flips on a tape by the rap band, No More Colors, full tilt and the heavily distorted sound floods the cabin with its frenetic, pulsating rhythm. »It’s my fav’rite song, ’cause it’s positive: it tell d’kids enough killin’s an’ dope and shootin’ an’ stuff, don’t do dat ’cause We’re All Blacks, We’re All in the Same Gang!« – the song’s inspiring if raucous chorus. He …
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Loïc Wacquant is professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. He has published numerous works on comparative urban marginality, embodiment, the penal state, ethnoracial domination, and social theory.